Maryland Code, REAL PROPERTY 8B-101
Terms Used In Maryland Code, REAL PROPERTY 8B-101
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: includes an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, personal representative, fiduciary, representative of any kind, corporation, partnership, business trust, statutory trust, limited liability company, firm, association, or other nongovernmental entity. See
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(b) “Attached to a permanent foundation” means anchored to real property by attachment to a permanent foundation and connected to utilities, including water, gas, electricity, or sewer or septic service.
(c) “Certificate of origin” has the meaning stated in § 13-101 of the Transportation Article.
(d) “Certificate of title” means a title issued by the Motor Vehicle Administration for a manufactured home under Title 13 of the Transportation Article.
(e) “Convert” means to make a manufactured home that is attached to a permanent foundation considered as permanently affixed to a parcel of real property and treated as an integral part of the parcel.
(f) (1) “Lien” means an interest in a manufactured home, whether as personal property or real property, or in the parcel of real property to which the manufactured home is or will be affixed, that secures payment of a debt or performance of an obligation.
(2) “Lien” includes:
(i) A mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement, or other instrument creating an encumbrance on the property; or
(ii) An encumbrance arising by operation of law.
(g) “Manufactured home” has the meaning stated in § 9-102(a) of the Commercial Law Article.
(h) “Owner” means a person that has an ownership interest in a manufactured home.
(i) “Sever” means to separate a manufactured home that has been converted to real property from the parcel of real property to which it has been affixed.